Death and Taxes: A True Crime Podcast

75 - Kathleen Peterson's Death on the Staircase

Benny, Carrie, Lizzie & Clare Season 4 Episode 75

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On the evening of December 9th, 2001, beloved wife and mother Kathleen Peterson is found at the bottom of a staircase in a pool of blood. Accusations are quickly levelled against her husband, Michael Peterson, whose defence claims it was just a tragic accident and that Kathleen had slipped and fallen. This is a case that is still fiercely dissected and debated 25 years later, and is the subject of the 2004 documentary series 'The Staircase'.

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